Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...although the editors still shudder at the quality of the first-draft copy that arrives at their desks during a four-day heat wave, TIME is organized to achieve at least a stand-off against the weather. Being city dwellers, our harbinger of the seasons is not the robin nor any of the age-old signs; it is the medical department. When one of our researchers turned up there early last month, sunburned, peppered with mosquito bites, black & blue from having fallen into a brook, nursing a finger blistered from picking daisies, we could be sure that summer...
...cannot. Contemporary-Portuguese literary efforts are scarcely worth the paper they are written on. Portuguese are kept in ignorance of some of the most important world news. Salazar will not let any paper print news about Russia or about Communist activity anywhere. No Portuguese paper mentioned the recent wave of strikes in the U.S. nor any other labor conflict. The United Nations is barely mentioned, because Portugal is not a member. Since there is sometimes courtesy, if not honor, among dictators, Salazar has permitted no mention of the controversy between U.N. and Caudillo Francisco Franco...
Unique among the secretarial students is Miss Barbara Corrigan of Belmont, an ex-Wave who is studying under the GI Bill of Rights. A graduate of Westbrook Junior College, Portland, Me., Miss Corrigan spent 18 months in the Navy. She is already acquainted with the mysteries of shorthand and typing, but finds her pre-war touch dulled by life in the service and a brief review necessary...
...great surprise of classical physicists, the electrons, recorded on a screen after they went through the holes, made a wave "interference" pattern. The experiment proved that, somehow, each electron went through both holes at once. The discovery, a great blow to the notion that matter is indivisible, led to the theory that a particle can be broken up into fields of energy which alternately reinforce and cancel each other, exactly like waves...
...Chicago, the atomic physicists reported that experiments with neutrons had spectacularly confirmed the wave mechanics theory. Like electrons, neutrons shot through a crystal produced a "diffraction pattern," which showed that they were really waves...